Hunde language
Hunde (Kihunde; also Luhunde, Kobi, Rukobi) is a Great Lakes Bantu language spoken by the Hunde people or Bahunde in Nord-Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is primarily spoken in the territories of Masisi, Walikale, Nyiragongo, Rutshuru and Kalehe.[3] There are also some speakers in neighbouring Rwanda and southwestern Uganda. Look up Yahunde, Bahunde, Yahudi, Yakobi, Kobi.
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Native to | Democratic Republic of Congo |
Ethnicity | Hunde people |
Native speakers | 950,000[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | hke |
Glottolog | hund1239 |
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References
- Hunde at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- "Hunde". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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